From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 05:24:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA18548 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 05:24:32 -0700 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA18542 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 05:24:30 -0700 Received: from starkhome.UUCP (root@localhost) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id IAA10989 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:24:25 -0400 Received: by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.11/1.34) id IAA03116; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:17:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:17:47 -0400 From: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Message-Id: <199504051217.IAA03116@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: CS.cmu.edu!moto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: sbstark!CS.cmu.edu!moto's message of Tue, 04 Apr 1995 21:02:22 -0400 Subject: process migration or DSM Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'm planning to do some research about distributed systems, especially >in the field like process migration/replication, distributed shared >memory, load balancing (or any other interesting things). I'd like to >use FreeBSD as a test bed for this purpose. The reason why I'd choose >FreeBSD rather than other existing experimental OSes is that I'd like >to do something useful and practical. If you know someone who is doing >related things, please let me know. Any information (tech pointer, >suggestion, disagreement or whatever) will also be appreciated. Thanks! I have written an experimental distributed shared memory system that runs under FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. I was planning on making it available on the net, but I have not found the time to do the sort of more extensive exercising of it that I wanted to do before releasing it (also, I made the mistake of trying to get a student to write the exerciser programs for it and I didn't get anything useful out of it). Of course, now there is also the issue of porting it to 2.1. I am still interested in working on this, and if I heard that there were people who were really interested, that might motivate me to give it a higher priority. - Gene Stark